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Decoupling Technical Code from Business Logic with Hexagonal Architecture When building an application you want to try and keep your business logic easy to maintain.

Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in If I had to select a single article to send out, it would be this one.

Jakarta EE 8: The new era of Java EE explained - Red Hat Developer I’ve always been a bit fuzzy on the alphabet soup that is Java, but I’m finally starting to get that all sorted out in my head.

React Hooks Mini Crash Course React Hooks have been out for a bit now, but I haven’t had the chance to work with them or sit down and learn them.

Composing better emails No matter how much you like your chat application, you probably are still sending a lot of emails.

Get your work recognized: write a brag document Have you ever been asked for a list of what all you accomplished in a given time period and drawn a blank?

Two Good Practices Agile Says You Don’t Need - DZone Agile There isn’t much consistency in Agile, just the principals.

Why We Need To Talk About Burnout In The Tech Industry Burnout seems to be a common thing in the technology industry, but that isn’t healthy.

Creating a Code Review Culture, Part 1: Organizations and Authors Creating a Code Review Culture, Part 2: Code Reviewers Code review is something I am very passionate about.

The Evolution of Comcast’s Architecture Guild Software architecture can get tricky in a large organization.

Object-Oriented Programming  —  The Trillion Dollar Disaster 🤦 This is certainly a divisive article, but it lays out a pretty good argument against Object-Oriented Programming in its current form.

UK ISP group names Mozilla ‘Internet Villain’ for supporting ‘DNS-over-HTTPS’ Mozilla is adding DNS over HTTPS to Firefox, and it’s not sitting very well with ISPs in the United Kingdom.

Firefox Will Give You a Fake Browsing History to Fool Advertisers Tired of all those ads following you around the internet and being super creepy?

Up your Git game and clean up your history If you use git for version control (which you probably do if you are doing any kind of version control) you really should learn to rebase.

I thought I could live without iMessage — and I was wrong This article isn’t as technical as many are, but I went with it because it is more privacy-focused.

Assessing Your Options for Real-Time Message Buses Today data busses and event streams are being needed more and more to handle the amount of data applications generate.

Microsoft launches React Native for Windows React Native allows you to build native, or near-native, iOS and Android applications with React.

Trans-inclusive Design You hopefully remembered timezones when building your application, you may have even remembered to support more than two names, but did you take into account transgender and non-binary gender users?

Announcing Microsoft Web Template Studio Microsoft has announced a new extension for Visual Studio Code called Web Template Studio.

Microsoft has some great resources around software architectures and modern application architecture.

Tinder’s move to Kubernetes If you are interested in Kubernetes or running applications using containers this article is worth a read.

Today I was attending Indy.Code() and I attended a single talk that I think will make the entire time at the conference worthwhile.

Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model Estimating software projects is hard and the bigger they get the harder it gets.

Naming Conventions Do’s and Don’ts Your class, function, and variable names matter.

Enriching Event-Driven Architectures with AWS Event Fork Pipelines Event-Driven architectures are a popular way to deal with applications with a high throughput that require high-availability.

5 steps for Disagreeing Effectively Ever strongly disagreed with something, tried to push back, and gotten shut down?

Let’s Encrypt and certbot are wonderful and make it easy, and cheap, to get SSL certificates setup.

Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing I haven’t read the paper referenced here, but it is something I very much intend to read.

Principles of Modern Application Development This is a large article, but it is tackling a large topic: modern application development.

OpenAI built a text generator so good, it’s considered too dangerous to release OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company, and they recently built a new language model.

Ride the Serverless Wave with DigitalOcean’s One-click Droplet Do you want to take advantage of serverless technology but not deal with being locked into Amazon’s or Azure’s particular way of doing serverless functions?

Understanding Database Sharding This article doesn’t focus on one database technology in particular but instead focuses on the theory of database sharding and different sharding architectures.

What’s New in ES2019: Array flat and flatMap, Object.fromEntries ES2019 has been finalized!

How to Rewrite Your Bedrock Application While Remaining Operational It’s tough to get buy-in that your whole application needs to be scrapped and rewritten.

Big Win for Web Accessibility in Domino’s Pizza Case I didn’t expect I would ever include an article from a law office, but here we are.

18F Methods Design isn’t all about “making it look pretty”.

Mother of All Breaches Exposes 773 Million Emails, 21 Million Passwords There has been a large dump of email addresses and passwords and there are reported to be even more available from a seller.

Amazon DocumentDB AWS has released a new database service called DocumentDB that is compatible with the MongoDB 3.6 API.

Infinite Data Structures In JavaScript This is an interesting exercise in iterators, generators, and general data structures and is worth a read.

Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration Microsoft announced that they will be contributing to Chromium, the open source project behind Google Chrome, and will bring Microsoft Edge “to a Chromium-compatible web platform…

I have a freelance project I’ve been working on that needed to be setup to allow tasks to be retried automatically.

Managing Kubernetes Just Got a Lot Simpler Another cloud provider has entered the managed Kubernetes cluster arena.

I’ve really come to like using GitHub’s GraphQL API, but I have come across some aggravating things relating to their documentation.

In a recent project I needed to collect the output from a process that was occurring on the server and output it to the user on the frontend.

Simple and Easy Mentorship with a Mentoring Agreement At work, we have a concept called “Managing Consultant”.

Cloud Diagrams & Notes This site has a cool collection of graphics and cheat sheets for different aspects of Amazon AWS.

The State of JavaScript 2018 The 2018 State of JavaScript report has been released.

Simple Git Rebases I’m tooting my own horn here, but this is an article I wrote that I felt was especially helpful.

Introducing reCAPTCHA v3: the new way to stop bots Google has announced their latest version of reCAPTCHA.

The Illustrated TLS Connection: Every Byte Explained Have you ever wanted to really understand TLS?